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Title	:	Candy
Author	:	Kevin Brooks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2006 by Push (first published January 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Romance. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary

Candy Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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When Joe Beck, a fifteen-year-old suburban kid, gets lost in a disreputable neighborhood on his way to an appointment in London, he is struck dumb by his first sight of beautiful and seemingly innocent Candy. She talks with him, teases him, but reveals nothing about herself except her phone number. Later they have a perfect day at the London Zoo, and soon Joe is as addicted to Candy as she is to heroin, in spite of the threats of her menacing pimp Iggy. Almost nothing matters except his desire to free her from her terrible life-- not his band's chance for a recording contract, not the song he has written for her that has become a hit without him. But there is something that still matters to him, and when he rescues the young prostitute from her sordid rooming house and takes her into hiding to sweat out her addiction, Iggy finds and uses that one thing that is stronger than Joe's passion for Candy, in a heart-thumping, breathless conclusion.

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Original Title:	Candy
ISBN:	0439683289 (ISBN13: 9780439683289)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Joe Beck
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Manchester Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2006), North East Teenage Book Award Nominee (2006), Silberner Lufti (2006)

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Ratings: 3.86 From 9721 Users | 438 Reviews

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Loves Another Drug(A Book Review of Kevin Brookss Candy)Its hard to imagine life without Candy.Addiction is a word most of us are familiar with and all of us have his/her vices, fixes we hanker for from time to time. But how powerful can an addiction be and how far can we go to satisfy this burning need?Joe Beck is your average fifteen-year-old teen living a comfortable life in the suburbs of London; he gets by in his school studies and cares pretty much about his music playing bass for a band

The content in this book wasn't altogether very surprising, given the blurbs and what I already understood it to be about. I didn't understand Joe's fascination with Candy, or his obsession. There wasn't enough depth behind it for me to really understand what happened there.I didn't find anything particularly redeeming about Candy, or Joe, so I don't know. It was kind of a disappointing read for me.

Kevin Brooks is a great writer who captures the reality of life in his books. Candy is a perfect example of that. In todays society many teenagers end up at the bottom of existence, whether it was their choice or not. This is very provocative and suspenseful story about two teenagers that simply feel in love.However, nothing is simple about their love. Candys troubled life brings down completely Joes simple yet empty life. When the reader follows the story of those two teens, he cant help but

Joe Becks life is pretty run-of-the-mill. Parents separated, doesnt get on so well with his father, goes to school, plays with a band, tries to stay out of trouble. And then he meets Candy.Something about her draws him right in. He cant believe shes talking to him. That he could be so lucky. And when he gets chased off by a very large and very scary Iggy, who can only be her Pimp, he cant believe that either. He mulls it over for a week, after finding her number in his pocket, then calls to ask

Candy is about a teenager named Joe Beck who was raised in a single-parent family. He met a girl named Candy at a train station in London, and became in love with her, but then he soon figured that Candy was not just a ordinary girl. She had a dark life full of violence, sex, and drugs. Because of how deeply Joe was in love with her, he is willing to save Candy from her dark life and her pimp"Iggy" before any other conflict starts to happen.Candy would not be the only girl who had a dark past

2.5 stars

I decided to read Candy by Kevin Brooks really just because we had to read something in class and I just picked it up, read the blurb and started reading it for that reason. I really enjoyed reading this book as it had a bit of romance mixed in with Candy's horrific lifestyle. I also really enjoyed that it was told in Joe's point of view. A character that I found interesting was Joey because as I kept on reading I really didn't understand why he kept trying to protect Candy even though he knew